The International Telecommunication Union will start work on standards providing interoperability for telepresence systems.
According to the ITU, products based on
established protocols including ITU-T H.323 lack interoperability due
to proprietary extensions. The new work will focus on
standardising full interoperability between telepresence systems, including facilitating
the coherent presentation of multiple audio and video
streams so that participants show correct eye contact
and gestures to give a real-life like experience.
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ITU’s membership ranges from countries, to companies including
the major VC players such as Polycom, Cisco and HP.